Arinna Weisman and Jean Smith combine clear explanations of the Buddha's teachings on freedom and happiness with their personal stories highlighting some of the challenges and insights of practice. The Beginner's Guide to Insight Meditation offers advice about going on retreat and help in choosing a teacher and a sangha (practice community), as well as suggestions for further reading and information on various Insight Meditation or Vipassana centers and resources. Here is an enormously practical book that covers every aspect of the teachings a beginner needs to get started.

Knowing that most people do not stop their lives to engage in spiritual practice, Buddhist teacher Andrew Weiss has always taught the direct application of practice to daily life. While also teaching sitting and walking meditation, he emphasizes mindfulness -- the practice of seeing every action as an opportunity to awaken meditative inquiry. Over the years, Andrew has honed his teachings into an effective ten-week course with progressive steps and home-play assignments.

In a worldwide journey that ended in India, Robert Leshin began his study of the Buddha's teachings. Though his use of Vipassana meditation, Leshin learned the secrets to the body's inner language. Giving examples drawn from his own life experiences, he offers the reader an opportunity for inner peace that begins with his approach to self-awareness. He calls it "Body Talk".

"The great Indian master Kamalashila's Stages of Meditation in the Middle Way School opens the door of philosophy and practice to meditators at all levels. With brevity and clarity, it covers all the main topics one needs to know from developing compassion, through numerous methods of meditation, to the ultimate realization of full awakening. Khenchen Thrangu Rinpche has an unique ability to bring forth the central issues of a text and make them available to a contemporary audience. This text will certainly bring great benefit to all those who encounter it."--The Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa Ogyen Trinle Dorje

Meditational practices constitute the very core of Buddhist approach to life, meditation is the heartbeat of the religion. The ultimate aim of Buddhist meditation is Enlightenment, or the state of Nirvana. The Nirvana leads to detachment of soul from the body, making it imperceptible to worldly pains and pleasures, and bringing in a sense of selflessness.

Teachers of Buddhism in the West Share Their Wisdom, Stories, and Experiences of Insight Meditation
With the founding of the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) by several young Americans in 1975, a fresh expression of Theravada Buddhism began to develop among lay practitioners in the West. Today this flourishing tradition offers a path to liberation suited to our own time and place, amid our own families, communities, and institutions. Here is the first collection of writings by leading teachers of insight meditation who have taught at IMS.

SPIRITUAL FRIENDS: Meditations by Monks and Nuns of the International Mahayana Instituteby Thubten Dondrub

Our spiritual friends are the positive potentials in our mind, which will never disappoint us and never desert us. Similarly, the generous and personal meditations offered in this book helps us to develop these potentials and thus are true friends to whom we can always turn. Likewise, the Sangha, as the ordained followers of the Buddha upon whom the continuity of the Buddha's teachings depend, are spiritual friends who encourage us and inspire us to transform our minds.
This unique book- the first from the International Mahayana Institute- contains meditations written by eighteen nuns and monks of the IMI Sangha as well as an autobiographical essay from each in which these nuns and monks share how they came to the ordained life.

In search for the nature of reality, "The Wheel of Analytic Meditation" employs a traditional Buddhist analysis of the body and mind to dissolve conditioned concepts and unexamined assumptions which inhibit deep understanding. "Instructions on Vision in the Middle Way" is a continuation text which is intended to lead the serious student step-by-step in the practice of meditation.

Tonglen is a meditation practice for cultivating love and compassion. It is a gentle, step by step process of opening the heart. by embracing, rather than rejecting, the unwanted and painful aspects of experience, we overcome fear and develop greater empathy for others. We are more in tune with both the joy and suffering of life. This book is a practical guide to deepening our practice and understanding of tonglen. Working with questions and answers, dialogue and exchange, it provides an invaluable reference for tonglen practitioners of all levels.

This explanation of Chandrakirti's presentation of the Sevenfold Reasoning is based on that found in the-Clear Exposition of the Presentation of Tenets, a Beautiful Ornament for the Meru of the Subduer's Teaching composed by Jang-kya. In this small volume, Joe Wilson includes an explanation of the context of the Sevenfold Reasoning in Buddhist philosophy as a whole.